“I am suffocated by my own being just as much as I am grateful for it. I love everything in this way: in such a way that I cannot bear it. I know what it is to love something so much that every moment is something both loved and lost.” LovePoetryTimeChangeLossConsciousnessBeingImpermanence Author:Belle Townsend
“To live was to recover, and to recover was to survive. To survive was exhausting, but it was surviving, still. And what else is there?” PoetryLossSurvivalCoronavirusPandemicWillExtinction Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull
“To survive is to face the truth that man made this extinction. Survival and grief are too often felt together. How do we live in a world without the millions who died in the pandemic? How do we live in the same world with those responsible for the loss of so many of us?” DeathPoetryLossCapitalismAccountabilityPandemicExtinctionCovidCapitalism Quotes Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull
“And when I say I love you, I mean that you can show me your darkest fire your soul can produce, and I will love you enough to sit with you until the smoke clears. Leave your disclaimers at the door. There is no convincing me to not love you.” PoetryFireSmokeUnconditional LoveLove PoetryRelationship Poetry Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull
“The quiet regrowth of a forest, fertilized only by its own burnt flesh, is what I think of when I think of survival. When we are able to look death in the face and prosper because of it, and not just despite it, we prove that to live is to contradict.” PoetryLife QuotesFireStarting OverNature PoetryLife CycleRegrowth Author:Belle Townsend